Klebsiella pneumoniae: going on the offense with a strong defense

MK Paczosa, J Mecsas - Microbiology and molecular biology …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
pneumoniae strains that have acquired additional genetic traits and become either …
pneumoniae infections, we first review the different types of K. pneumoniae strains that are now …

Population genomics of Klebsiella pneumoniae

KL Wyres, MMC Lam, KE Holt - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
… It seems that some K. pneumoniae strains may be particularly permissive for plasmid uptake
and/or maintenance, resulting in plasmid loads that are typically greater than those reported …

Comparative genomics of Klebsiella pneumoniae strains with different antibiotic resistance profiles

…, P Sun, J Vamathevan, Y Li, K Ingraham… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
… Of particular concern is the spread of MDR strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae, a Gram-negative
bacterium that causes nosocomial, urinary tract, and wound infections. K. …

Pathogenic potential of environmental Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates

C Struve, KA Krogfelt - Environmental microbiology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
pneumoniae in nature and the general ability of K. pneumoniae strains to infect susceptible
pneumoniae strains used in this study and their source of isolation are listed in Table 1. The …

Colonization, Infection, and the Accessory Genome of Klebsiella pneumoniae

RM Martin, MA Bachman - Frontiers in cellular and infection …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
pneumoniae strains and the role of the accessory genome in distinguishing these groups …
pneumoniae and hypervirulent K. pneumoniae strains have emerged separately across the …

Hypervirulent klebsiella pneumoniae

TA Russo, CM Marr - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
… In 2004, Fang et al. reported that K. pneumoniae strains that caused hepatic abscesses in
… solely a positive string test to define hvKp strains, which has resulted in some strains of K. …

Antibiotic Resistance and Virulence Profiles of Klebsiella pneumoniae Strains Isolated From Different Clinical Sources

V Ballén, Y Gabasa, C Ratia, R Ortega… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… The aim of this study was to characterize a collection of K. pneumoniae strains isolated from
… The specific characteristics of the uropathogenic strains were studied and compared to K. …

Epidemic Klebsiella pneumoniae ST258 is a hybrid strain

L Chen, B Mathema, JDD Pitout, FR DeLeo… - MBio, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
… To elucidate the phylogenetic relationship among ST258, ST11, and ST442 strains, we first
compared the genome sequences of six closed Klebsiella pneumoniae strains (Table 1). The …

Colistin resistance mechanisms in Klebsiella pneumoniae strains from Taiwan

YH Cheng, TL Lin, YJ Pan, YP Wang… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Colistin is one of the antibiotics of last resort for the treatment of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella
pneumoniae infection. This study showed that capsular type K64 (50%) and ST11 (53.9…

Virulence profiles and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of Klebsiella pneumoniae strains isolated from different clinical specimens

R El Fertas-Aissani, Y Messai, S Alouache, R Bakour - Pathologie Biologie, 2013 - Elsevier
… present in clinical strains; however, among the 77 distinct capsular K antigens, only … strains
(data not shown). The hypermucoviscosity phenotype and rmpA are predominant in strains of …